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Okay, real snow day!
I just came home. I was midway through the people who bailed; R (who lives in the hills, and whose wife would not be able to drive in this both due to her car and disabilities) and L (who lives far enough away and up that he can be snowed in when we're just wet) bailed first. I chased N (lives on a steep hill) and M (45 minute drive into the country where the roads are never cleared) out pretty closely thereafter. N got home and messaged me that if he'd left any later, he would not have made it into his driveway.
I passed that around the office. We sent an email amounting to "we're not quite closed, but if you can't reach someone, call them at home". My boss bailed next. I had a few tasks to do that are vastly easier with the office tools. I finished those, and bailed.
Q covered the daytime pager for me while I came home, now I'm back on call. It took me about 40 minutes to make what is a 15 or 20 minute drive in clear weather and traffic, and most of that was not the traffic. The highways had been tended and weren't too slick (slushy, but spread too thin and too liquid to really slip). Still, I was under the speed limit most of the way...because the visibility stank. There was water spraying up from the road and heavy amounts of snow falling from the sky. What a combination.
I took the south Wilsonville exit. All my routes home from the north exit involve slopes, sometimes slopes with turns and stop signs (*waves to 65th street) and I didn't want to do that. (Well, not all my routes. I can take a circuitous route that is level, and results in my ending up on the same street the South Wilsonville exit leads to. Thanks, no, I-5 was pretty clear as far as traction, I wasn't so sure of the surface streets.)
The Wilsonville road, once past the shopping center, had a few slush and slip issues. When I got up just shy of the high school, I was doing about 20 (and would have been doing 25 if not for the school zone) when I saw a car. So I slowed further. Good call. He'd been coming the other way and made a left turn, lost control, and slammed a little car (sorta like my Corolla but I didn't catch the make/model) into a high curb; his front bumper was a mess. At least, that's what it looked like. Another car was in the driveway he was trying to turn into, but it looked undamaged, so I think this was a one-car accident with a witness.
There's a center island with bushes there, that ends just before the driveway (in the direction I was going - to him it would have started just after); he'd hit the curb on the far side of the driveway, which gave me enough room to move around him in the center area that's not really a turn lane and go on. If he had swung the other way and hit the curb on the side nearer to me, I would have been trapped, unless I wanted to try to go in reverse down a slushy hill.
Since it looked like everything was okay, I came home. It's very snowy here, and no little slippery. I'll get back to work in a bit, but I'm taking my lunch break now. And taking photographs. I didn't have my camera with me today because I didn't think pouring rain would be very good for photographs even if I do like it. Silly me! I'll take some pictures and then de-snow the bushes and trees. This stuff is wet and heavy.
I passed that around the office. We sent an email amounting to "we're not quite closed, but if you can't reach someone, call them at home". My boss bailed next. I had a few tasks to do that are vastly easier with the office tools. I finished those, and bailed.
Q covered the daytime pager for me while I came home, now I'm back on call. It took me about 40 minutes to make what is a 15 or 20 minute drive in clear weather and traffic, and most of that was not the traffic. The highways had been tended and weren't too slick (slushy, but spread too thin and too liquid to really slip). Still, I was under the speed limit most of the way...because the visibility stank. There was water spraying up from the road and heavy amounts of snow falling from the sky. What a combination.
I took the south Wilsonville exit. All my routes home from the north exit involve slopes, sometimes slopes with turns and stop signs (*waves to 65th street) and I didn't want to do that. (Well, not all my routes. I can take a circuitous route that is level, and results in my ending up on the same street the South Wilsonville exit leads to. Thanks, no, I-5 was pretty clear as far as traction, I wasn't so sure of the surface streets.)
The Wilsonville road, once past the shopping center, had a few slush and slip issues. When I got up just shy of the high school, I was doing about 20 (and would have been doing 25 if not for the school zone) when I saw a car. So I slowed further. Good call. He'd been coming the other way and made a left turn, lost control, and slammed a little car (sorta like my Corolla but I didn't catch the make/model) into a high curb; his front bumper was a mess. At least, that's what it looked like. Another car was in the driveway he was trying to turn into, but it looked undamaged, so I think this was a one-car accident with a witness.
There's a center island with bushes there, that ends just before the driveway (in the direction I was going - to him it would have started just after); he'd hit the curb on the far side of the driveway, which gave me enough room to move around him in the center area that's not really a turn lane and go on. If he had swung the other way and hit the curb on the side nearer to me, I would have been trapped, unless I wanted to try to go in reverse down a slushy hill.
Since it looked like everything was okay, I came home. It's very snowy here, and no little slippery. I'll get back to work in a bit, but I'm taking my lunch break now. And taking photographs. I didn't have my camera with me today because I didn't think pouring rain would be very good for photographs even if I do like it. Silly me! I'll take some pictures and then de-snow the bushes and trees. This stuff is wet and heavy.